Members of the vet team at Synergy are well versed in dealing with diets and wider cattle nutrition, from optimizing a grass based paddock system to trouble shooting fully housed TMR formulations. Some of our vets are real nutrition enthusiasts and love the smell of silage and TMR so much they have even written publications on it and lecture nationally on the subject! Suboptimal nutrition can lead to many problems, some of these being very obvious such as displaced stomachs (LDA/RDA), metritis and milk fevers. Most however are far less obvious, and often far more costly: leading to poor fertility, disappointing milk yields/solids and poor health and immunity. Getting nutrition right is therefore pivotal in running a successful and sustainable farming enterprise. Key to the unique position of your vet is their ability to provide you with truly independent nutritional advice, whilst also having the benefit of knowing your system and cows inside out. At Synergy we are also fortunate to be able to call upon the expertise of our Vet Tech team providing key information on mobility, foot health and body condition scoring. Getting the best outcome usually relies on a true team approach, and we are very happy to offer our on farm expertise alongside other advisors such as nutritionists and feed reps as part of a team approach.
Our nutrition service also offers:
- In house lab at Rampisham offer ing a quick turnaround for analysis of sliage dry matter. We also have access to external referral labs for more in depth analysis of water sources, silages and many other feed components.
- We have access to advanced computer software allowing us to trouble shoot TMR formulations to assist your nutritional advisor on farm.
- A holistic approach to nutrition. How you feed is often just as crucial as what you feed, and as vets we are ideally placed to evaluate storage, mixing and feeding out management factors on farm.
- Advise on trace element sampling and suitable supplementation options suitable to your system.
- Access to a range of objective cow measures such as metabolic profiling, faecal consistency scoring, urinary and rumen pH sampling and liver biopsy.
Have you ever wondered if your carefully calculated diet is actually working for your cows? The discrepancy between what you think you feed, what they actually eat and what they in the end digest can be hard to sometimes appreciate, but your routine vet is there to help.
